Ghee-Kesar Cake ~ A cake with "desi" touch!

It's been quite a long time since my last post! Well, It's not that I was sick or out of town but was little occupied with other stuffs. And then something really interesting came to my way! Few days back my friend Pinkii told me that she is experimenting with simple sponge-cake with 'desi' flavours. With one of my most favourite spice & flavour 'kesar' (saffron) and 'ghee'. Though I never heard of it but I have complete trust on her experiments..I decided to make that as soon possible. Huge thanks to Pinkii for this brilliant idea.
She told me to follow any basic sponge-cake recipe and to flavour it with Kesar. Also to reduce some butter and using ghee instead. She suggested to use buttermilk and ground almond and crushed cashew nuts, almond and pistachio. I didn't have almond or pistachio at home. So I used only cashew nuts. And I didn't use ground almond. Apart from that I followed my usual basic cake recipe.
However it came out very different and exceptionally delicious! Here I am sharing the way I made it.
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